Process Technician IV
About The Position
Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world. As a Process Technician, you'll be responsible for preparing wafers for experimentation, operating reactors to perform thin film processes, and using scanning electron microscopes for analyses and imaging. You'll record process conditions and experimental observations, perform routine maintenance procedures, and evaluate wafers and thin films. Process Technicians are tasked with preparing cross-section samples for analysis, identifying patterns of interest in imaging, and operating laboratory process equipment and instrumentation. Your expertise in troubleshooting, equipment maintenance, and process optimization drives higher levels of productivity, quality, and efficiency in our manufacturing processes.
Requirements
- Technical Diploma
- 4-7 years of experience
Responsibilities
- Prepare blanket wafers/panels for experimentation, prepare special coupons/wafers/panels per engineer team instruction
- Read die map, and cut coupons based on die map.
- Prepare coupon wafer for processing
- Operate reactors to perform preclean and thin film processes, record process parameters, and experimental observations.
- Prepare sample after processing, submit samples to internal SEM/TEM metrology lab, or inline metrology
- Upload metrology results to working file.
- Prepare graphs and tables summarizing results
- Follow company demo procedure, prepare customer wafer/coupon, operate tool per demo instruction.
- Understand basic tool / HW information, recover tool error during process.
- Report tool issue to HW team.
- Use quantitative wafer evaluation and process instrumentation knowledge to draw conclusions from data.
- Assists in training junior technicians.
- Develop and publish best known method (BKM) procedures, including coupon sample prep, manual metrology measurement, etc
Benefits
- supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career
- comprehensive benefits package
- participation in a bonus and a stock award program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
